Interior hatband.



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INTERIOR HATBAND. APPLIOATION FILED AUG. 11, 19131 1,092,774. Patented Apr. 7, 1914.

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ALBERT LESLIE JONES, 0F SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, ASSIGNOR 0F ONE-HALF TO EDWARD S. SWAIN, OF SEATTLE, WASHINGTON.

INTERIOR HATBAND.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 7, 19141.

Application filed August 11, 1913. Serial No. 784,259.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, ALBERT LESLIE JONES, a citizen of the United States, and resident of the city of Seattle, in the county of King and State of Washington, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in In terior Hatbands, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention is intended to provide an improvement in interior hat bands susceptible of absorbing perspiration and made of metal whereby it can be shaped to eliminate pressure at certain points and to distribute it or equalize it in its entirety. I

Another object of my invention 1s the facing of this metal band with hair well known as a non-conductor of heat, and of such texture as will readily absorb perspiration.

Another object of my invention equally important is to provide an adjustable band that can be attached to or detached from the interior of the hat without sewing.

To these and other ends, the invention consists of certain improvements and combination and arrangements of parts, all of which will be hereinafter more fully described, the novel features being pointed out particularly in the claims at the end of the specification.

In the drawings :Figure 1 is a plan view ofthe hat in half section showing the band in place. Fig. 2 is a detail view showing the serrated strips in the metal band and the hair interwoven therein. Fig. 3 is a detail plan view showing the band in place over the rod and the hair as it appears when woven. Fig. 4: is a detail plan view showing means of attaching independent segments of the improved metal band wlthout removing the original interior of the hat.

As shown in the drawings A Fig. 2, represents the improved band made of a light flexible metal preferably aluminum, having a series of serrated strips cut therein and terminating near the side edges thereof. It can be observed that when hair is woven therein as shown in Figs. 3 and 4. at OJit presents a cushion surface of uniform thickness. One edge of the band is then curved slightly until it assumes the shape as shown at point B- Fig. 3, and adapted to fit over rod C. which encircles the interior rim of the crown of the hat and is attached thereto by threads. This rod is very light and made of any yielding material such as ratan. Slots are provided in the metal band to permit the threads that hold the rod to the interior crown of the hat to slip past therein when the band is adjusted thereto, as shown at F. Fig. 2.

It can be observed that the hair that is interwoven into the band extends around the curved arch B so as to present an unbroken surface of hair matting when the band is adjusted to the rod that encircles the interior crown. The hair matting like wise extends over the lower edge of the band and is clamped thereto as shown at D Fig. 3.

It is to be understood that the adaptation of this band can be extended to a hat where the wearer does not care to remove the original band, and that object is accomplished by inserting the curved edge B. that is intended to fit around the rod G. between the hat and band E. that is sewed thereto, in its entirety, or", a series of independent segments can be attached around the circumference of the band to suit the convenience of the wearer as shown in Fig. 4.-

It is believed that the invention of this improved band has accomplished a means whereby baldness can be greatly reduced; namely the introduction of a light flexible metal which can be shaped to eliminate pressure which takes place around the outer rim of the ordinary hat band which precludes free circulation of blood, hence baldness. Further that by so shaping this band pressure which is greatly centralized as above mentioned can be distributed or equalized through the entire band, as it is a well known principle that by distributing the same pressure over a larger area the bearing pressure at points formerly centralized is reduced. The result is further accentuated by the introduction of hair in combination with the metal band which maintains fievibility and permits a circulation of air to pass therethrough, and with its properties well known as a non-conductor of heat, it will prevent perspiration or absorb such as appears. It is further believed that sanitation in a hat band, a feature never before seriously considered, has been successfully accomplished in this invention, as the detachable feature of this band; and the fact that it is made of metal and hair which will not shrink when washed will readily suggest itself to the user as all perspiration can be removed and not allowed to remain and accumulate throughout the life of the hat.

Having thus described my invention what I claim as new, and desire to protect by Letters Patent is 1. A light metal interior hat band, having strips cut therein; hair interwoven between said strips, a circumferential rod secured to the interior crown of the hat, and means for adapting said metal hat band to be adjusted to the said circumferential rod.

2. A light metal interior hat band, hav- 7 ing serrated strips cut therein to prevent slipping of hair interwoven therebetween, said metal hat band having one of its side edges curved and adapted to fit over and rest upon a circumferential rod, and means for preventing peripheral displacement when said hat band is adjusted thereto.

3. A light metal interior hat band, in combination with hair interwoven between serrated strips cut therein, and means for adapting independent segments of said metal interior hat band to be adjusted to the original interior band of a hat.

Signed by me at Seattle, Vashington, this 1st day of August, 1913.

A. L. JONES.

Witnesses:

' J. L. REED,

FRANK H. F REW, HOMER E. TURNER.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

, Washington, D. G. a 

